Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk

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1. Kyan on July 23rd, 2009 8:55 pm
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   Brocabulary promises a dictionary of all the words a steriotypical “bro” man needs but doesn’t have. If that’s what you’re looking for, then that’s what you’ll get. Subjects tend to involve beer and women, with the odd foray into smoking pot or activities associated with a restroom.

   I found discussions of words for women’s clothing to be accurate in their own way. Yep, when a skirt is short enough that I can see the [...] cleavage, it is appropriate to call it a “squirt skirt.”

   Mixed in are cartoon drawings of women, always curvy with cleavage showing and large lips, and men, kind of scruffy and shaped like their clothes. The pics are drawn well for what they are.

   This is a well done version of the concept. If the marketing and the idea of a book of short terms describing women as objects, humorous bodily functions, and drinking with the guys, then you will probably enjoy this.

2. Anonymous on July 23rd, 2009 9:17 pm

   4.0 out of 5 stars
   Funniest Book Ever ! ! !
   This is exactly how me and my bros talk when we’re hanging out! Daniel Mauer has captured what being a man is all about. Don’t brocrastinate any longer – buy this book now!

3. Itala on July 23rd, 2009 9:56 pm

   2.0 out of 5 stars
   A rather crude and offensive book
   Daniel Maurer’s book Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk is a handbook of terms, charts, and drawn pictures and diagrams for increasing a man’s ‘brocabulary.

4. Anonymous on July 23rd, 2009 11:35 pm
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   I was quite prepared to hate this book. There is an absolute glut on the humorous handbook market, and even the category masters have run out of ideas: The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History. However, the “Also by Daniel Maurer” reference to his fictional previous “Guide” gave evidence of a warped enough sense of humor (or mind) to pull this off, and pull this off he does!

   The reason it works for me is the surprisingly delicate balancing act. On one level Daniel is giving relatively practical advice to “men” who would aspire to behave like this; on another he is clearly making fun of anyone stupid enough to try to behave like this on a regular basis since the end result is likely to be death or imprisonment, or at the very least divorce or getting dumped. True, the wannabe player can glean some useful tips: if you use your liePhone for cheating on your girl, don’t leave it where your girl can find it, but this book is clearly intended more for the older and wiser bro now willing to live vagicariously through the stupidity of others. If you are too mature to do this anymore but just immature enough to be brostalgic about it, this book is for you.

   Of course the key to something like this is the quality of the heologisms. Are they something you’d be willing to use cold sober? Are they something you could remember while drunk? How many of these will make the grade of passing into general use? Probably none, but that doesn’t mean that some aren’t worthy of consideration.

   Chances are that we’ve all engaged in brocrastination. We can all learn the wisdom of friendjamins. We’ve all felt the urge to manalyze. We’ve all wondered about the stripping point, been tempted to approxidate, desperately battleshipped, taken someone out to an impresstaurant, at least unintentionally malienated, been on the receiving end of fembellishment, femcroachment, or femtrapment, been sent on embarrassing herrands at certain times of the month, been caught treating something important as vagibberish, wished death or worse on a PDA-hole, and felt the need for freeodorant or freetergent, even if we never indulged. If NOTHING in this book makes you smile, you are either totally lacking in humor,…

   or you are reading it while your girlfriend/wife is watching you.

   Defects? The most obvious is the lack of an index, perhaps to be fixed upon publication. In a topically arranged lexicon this is absolutely necessary; you won’t be able to find your favorites quickly without one even if you haven’t been drinking. Overall there are arguably too many lame attempts at humor and too many neologisms that are no improvement on the original; you should definitely page through a copy to make sure that it’s your mug of beer, and if you are a woman, you probably shouldn’t even bother. This is definitely intended for the guybrary not the library.

   But I will definitely be on the lookout for Daniel Maurer’s next book.

5. Nuala on July 24th, 2009 12:37 am

   4.0 out of 5 stars
   Everything you ever wanted to know about how Bro-Speak
   While this is intended as a tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Dude-Speak, it also functions well as training manual for the college bound high-school student; who could be a more…

6. Madeleine on July 24th, 2009 12:43 am

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   Hysterical Lowbrow Wordplay
   I wasn’t really expecting much (one never does from a book in this genre) but once I got it, I loved it.

7. Jennifer on July 24th, 2009 1:32 am

   1.0 out of 5 stars
   I thought this would be funny. . . my bad
   This book looked like it would be a funny and interesting read. I did a quick skim the first day I had it.

8. Base on July 24th, 2009 1:50 am
   Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What’s this?)

   What it is is a very clever list of expressions that might be used by a dudeamaniac. It is not a dictionary. The words are nonce-words, not exotic expressions with which you need to be familiarized. For example: a fanimal is a fan who is so hardcore that he’s on the verge of being a wild animal. The vulgar expressions are more juvenile and usually more clever, as are the sexual expressions. The book is somewhere between a Jeff Foxworthy humor book and a succession of dirty jokes. It might be put on the jokes-for-the-john hook in an Animal House-type fraternity or it could be the perfect airplane read, so long as you’re not sitting next to a person who could be offended by the illustrations. Most of all, it’s probably the sort of book that a group of 12 year-olds might pass around as they sip their first beers. That’s not to say that it isn’t clever. It’s very clever, just not very tasteful.

9. Mutia on July 24th, 2009 3:16 am

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   it ain’t no Hipster Handbook
   I did want to do bodily harm to the writers of Hipster Handbook. “DECK”!?!?! They tried to say people actually used that word for something being cool?

10. Adeline on July 24th, 2009 4:22 am

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Hilarious–If you have a sense of humor
    Brocabulary is a hilarious piece of satire and readers should go into it expecting to laugh, to be a bit grossed out, and to be entertained.

11. Hakan on July 24th, 2009 7:11 am

    1.0 out of 5 stars
    RAMONE!!!
    RRRAAAMMMOOONNNEEE!!! This book is a masterpiece, it should win the BRObel prize for literature!
    RRRAAAAMMMMOOOONNNNEEEEEE!!!!

12. Paisley on July 24th, 2009 9:49 am

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    More puns-per-square-inch than anything I’ve ever read
    Daniel Maurer’s “Brocabulary” packs more puns and wordplay-jokes per page than anything I’ve ever read.

13. Sabrina on July 24th, 2009 10:56 am

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    “I’ll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
    Threats of bodily harm to the author, suggestions of mass book burnings and compostings – violent, wordy reactions to a book these “reviews” (“screeds” is a better word) dismiss…

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